practicalities of blogging

[Dori Green]

Flood, Donna wrote:
> I've been reading this with interest, and, for me, blogging 
 > always comes back to the same question:
> 
> Why?  Why blog?  
> 
> I don't think I get it...
> 
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When I answered a phone for a bank, it was what I did for a living.

When I write, it has so much more to do with what I _am_.  I am a
writer.  Will anybody read it or not?  Will I get paid for it or not?
Those are relatively irrelevant, at least to me.

I have not yet gotten into blogging but a cable connection and new
laptop and much more disposable income and time* are all in the near
future.

Dori Green, The Wandering Farmer

*Yes I'm still employed!  Boarding my goats didn't work out and I have
made arrangements to give them away.  They're leaving to a wonderful new
home in two weeks and I will have to find something else on which to
spend that money and time.  I will be blogging about the process of
writing my fictionalized book about the whole experience of being a
completely failed organic farmer (and the international conspiracy to
eliminate all non-corporate farms).  In the long run I will not be
surprised to be boo-hooing all the way to the bank.  I did not
surrender, I was just beaten into submission.  There's a difference.

"To a writer there is no such thing as a wasted experience.
_Everything_ is material." -- Garrison Keillor